442, Lot: 565. Estimate $75. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of two (2) coins. 565a Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.08 g, 5h). Mint I. Group Ia (AD 260). IMP C M CASS LAT POSTIMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SALVS PROVINCIARVM, horned river-god reclining left, holding pitcher and reed; prow of ship on right. AGK 88a (r1); RIC V 87 var. (obv. legend); Cunetio 2368.var. (same). Near VF, traces of silver content, porosity, a few scratches on the reverse.

Bought from Paul-Francis Jacquier, 1996. Ex Jacquier FPL 18 (Autumn 1996), no. 610.

Although the spelling of the emperor’s name is not entirely clear on this coin, it can also be attributed with certainty to the very earliest issue of Postumus, since the portrait, like that of the previous coin, closely resembles that of Gallienus.

565b Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (23.5mm, 3.46 g, 12h). Mint I. Group Ia (AD 260). IMP C M CASS LAT POSTIMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVG, Victory walking left, holding wreath and palm; seated captive at her feet. AGK 97a (r2); RIC V 89 var. (obv. legend); Cunetio 2370. VF, some silvering, porosity.

Ex Michel Thys Collection (Jacquier 42, 16 September 2016), lot 503, purchased from CFO, Paris, 1987.

This coin still bears the incorrect spelling of the emperor’s name, but the portrait is now beginning to resemble that of Postumus.

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